EVERYONE has heard of the “whirlwind romance.” But a “hurricane wedding”?
Lauren Fine, design consultant with Miami-based Grande Affaires, watched as Hurricane Wilma ripped through her best-laid plans for an elaborate wedding for nearly 400 gues...
DOING a little digging into the tastes and backgrounds of the wedding couple is business as usual for most wedding designers. Meeting with religious leaders, consulting with university faculty and watching hours of foreign films generally are not...
WITH her background in corporate event and meeting planning, Silvia Young of San Francisco-based Dedicated to Detail says she brings a different mentality to the social event planning that is now central to her business. “If you've worked for a C...
IT-GIRL planner Yifat Oren has gotten a lot of compliments in her 10 years as an event designer. But the best by far, she says, came on the heels of the four-day, 300-guest wedding she created for superstar client Kevin Costner in Aspen, Colo., l...
RAIN, RAIN AND more rain. February, the month that former Los Angeles Laker basketball star Derek Fisher picked to celebrate his marriage to longtime fiancée Candace Patton, fell in the soggy middle of one of L.A.'s wettest seasons on record. Goo...
CHICAGO-BASED EVENT planner Audrey Gordon has been working on special events for nearly 25 years. But when it came time for the event of a lifetime — the wedding of her only daughter — Gordon turned to an event professional to create a spectacula...
PERSONALIZATION continues to be the top trend for weddings today, with couples seeking customized decor and accessories for their big day. Designers of wedding equipment are creating new products — and making over classics — that appeal to modern...
FROM BRIDES OPTING to wear colored dresses instead of classic white gowns to the selection of unusual ceremony sites, weddings continue to merge personal style with traditional touches, and wedding menus are no exception. Here, three caterers dis...
THE PERFECT WEDDING requires the perfect setting. And nothing offers access to a wider range of ideal sites than a tent. Peaked, pole, clear-top or kedered, the right wedding tent can turn a rustic, too-small or otherwise tricky locale into an ou...
DARCY MILLER JUST celebrated her 10th anniversary — not (yet) as a wife, but as editor of Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. Having studied a “trillion” weddings, she offers these insights to wedding planners:
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